AM

8:00

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Chesapeake Foyer

8:30

Plenary Session Opening Remarks and Presentations:                                           

                  Welcome, Introductions, Review of Workshop Purpose                        

                  Meeting Packet, and Agenda

                           Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

Chesapeake Ballroom

8:45

-Overview of the National Science Foundation (NSF)

                  -Overview of the HBCU-UP Program

                  -Strengths and Weaknesses in Funded/Non-funded HBCU-UP Proposals

                           Claudia Rankins, Program Director, HBCU-UP

                                 Division of Human Resource Development (HRD)

                                 Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), NSF

9:30

Questions and Answers

9:45

Review of NSF’s Merit Review Criteria and Process

                           Costello Brown, Former Dean of Graduate Studies and Research and

                                    Professor of Chemistry (retired)

                                 California State University-Los Angeles, and QEM Consultant

10:15

Break

10:30

Discussion of a Logic Model

                        J. Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network

11:00

Concurrent Session I:  (See Assignment Sheet)

                  Focus: Brief Presentations of Project Summaries and Logic Models

                  Group A: Institutions Preparing Broadening Participation Research Proposals

                                    Shirley McBay, QEM Network

Severn Room

                  Group B: Institutions Preparing Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) or

                                 Implementation Awards                                                                 

                                    Fitzgerald Bramwell, Associate Provost for Research

                                    Howard University, and QEM Consultant

Potomac Room

                  Group C: Institutions Preparing Targeted Infusion Proposals              

                                    Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

                                    J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network

Chesapeake Ballroom

                  Group D: Institutions Preparing Planning or Implementation Proposals   

                                    Arturo Bronson, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

                                     University of Texas at El Paso, and QEM Consultant

                                    Althea Burns, Associate and Conference Coordinator, QEM Network

Room 2101, 2^nd Floor

PM

12:15

Working Lunch: Describing Goals and Objectives in Competitive Proposals         

                        Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network

Chesapeake Ballroom

1:15

Plenary Session  

                  Panel: Multi-year Grantees Share Their HBCU-UP Experiences:

                            What Worked Well and What Didn’t Work Well

Chesapeake Ballroom

Panelists:

                  Melissa Harrington, Associate Professor of Biology Delaware State University

                  Oliver Hill, Professor of Psychology. Virginia State University

                           Panel Moderator: Althea Burns, QEM Network

2:00

Concurrent Session II: (Same locations, assignments, and session leaders as

                                                      Concurrent Session I)

                  Focus: Project Goals, Objectives, Intellectual Merit, and Broader Impacts

3:15

Break  

3:30

Plenary Session Presentations:                                                                              

                   Project Management Plans

                           Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

                  Project Timelines

                           Arturo Bronson, QEM Consultant

                  Project Budgets

                           Fitzgerald Bramwell, QEM Consultant

Chesapeake Ballroom

4:45

Concurrent Session III: (Same locations, assignments, and session leaders

                                                       as in earlier Concurrent Sessions)

                  Focus: Project Management, Timelines, and Budgets

6:00

Break

6:30

Working Dinner - Review of the Day’s Activities                                                                    

Scott Room

Overnight Assignment: Institutional Teams are to revise their project summaries, logic models, and initial budgets, as needed

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

AM

8:15

Buffet Breakfast                      

                           Institutional Teams turn in printed project summaries

                           and logic models to QEM

Scott Room

9:00

Concurrent Session IV: (Same locations, assignments, and session leaders

                                                        as in earlier Concurrent Sessions)

                  Focus: Review of Revised project summaries, logic models, and

                             First-year budgets

10:15

Break

Scott Room

10:30

Plenary Session Presentations:                                                                              

                  An Analysis of Key Components of FY 2011 HBCU-UP Awards

                           J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network

Chesapeake Ballroom

11:15

Project Data Collection and Analysis, Data Management Plan, and Annual/Final Reports

                           J. Arthur Jones and Althea Burns, QEM Network

Noon/PM

12:00

Working Lunch with Follow-up Workshop Participants

Scott Room

  1:00

Joint Plenary Session with Follow-up Workshop Participants                                                

                  Project Assessment and Evaluation Plans

                           Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

Scott Room

1:45

Summary Comments by Consultants and QEM Project Staff

                  -Observations and Recommendations by Participants

                  -Next Steps

                           Discussion Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network

2:00

Adjournment